Simon Teen is partnering with Teen Lit Rocks for an amazing Emergency Contact giveaway! I wish I could enter it myself, because I love Herschel Supply backpacks, and the branded pop socket is adorable. We get pitched blog tours and giveaways all the time, but we’re picky about which ones we do. But we have…

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Hello everyone, long time no posts. I recently returned from the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference and realized we have loads of duplicate books. I’d like to send a box to a lucky reader, preferably to a media specialist, a fellow book blogger, or a teacher interested in starting or adding to their class library….

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Hello everyone. Sorry it has been a while. We’ve had some technical and personal difficulties these past couple of months, but we’re trying to get back on track. We’re jump-starting our return to posting with a giveaway to clear my shelves. This giveaway is of 10 ARCs of young adult books with 2017 release dates….

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Thanks to Disney-Hyperion for providing a copy of the book and The Dark Prophecy-themed prize-pack products to review and give away. All views are my own. Since Apollo is the God of Music, Poetry, and the Sun, we are rounding up some summer essentials to have on hand for good summer reading. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite:…

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We’re thrilled to partner with Little, Brown to promote author-actor Chris Colfer’s latest book, Stranger than Fanfiction. Since the characters in Stranger than Fanfiction are die-hard fans of a hit teen sci-fi show called Wiz Kids, we’ve got some recommendations for you based on particular television fandoms. If you’re a fan of Game of Thrones,…

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We are so excited to be the latest stop on the blog tour for “The Edge of Everything” by Jeff Giles. It was easy to say “YES!” when we were asked to participate, because as it turns out, Jeff is not only an impressive debut YA novelist, but he was once upon a time an…

My daughter, 11, loves to read fantasy books with heroic female heroines. She and a couple of her friends have been reading Jennifer Donnelly’s series since it started with DEEP BLUE, and now they’re desperate to find out what happens next in the story of Serafina, Astrid, and the other mermaid heroines. I love that…

Hit the road this summer with Fodor’s Travel and Listening Library! We’re so excited to start our summer. My three kids only have three more weeks of school, and then we have an entire summer to finalize our August vacation plans to visit the National Parks. We can’t think of a better destination this year,…

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We’re thrilled to partner with Disney-Hyperion to give away a copy of best-selling author Rick Riordan’s newest series, THE TRIALS OF APOLLO. Book #1 in the series, THE HIDDEN ORACLE, is being released with five retail-specific editions that all hit shelves on May 3rd. Each edition includes a unique insert that you can get exclusively from that…

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One of the first young adult books I read six years ago when I started reading YA seriously is THE BOOK THIEF. I was at my local toy & book store, Child’s Play, and the owner/bookseller Phyllis was raving about a book narrated by Death and written by a handsome Aussie. That book, of course,…

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Hello fellow book lovers! Teen Lit Rocks is run by Sandie Chen, a professional book reviewer and film critic. Our contributors are all adult women (librarians, educators, mothers) hailing from across the U.S. and Canada who love to read YA. We support diversity in teen literature and can't wait to discuss our recommendations with you.